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A New England teen observes an unnaturally dark, human-faced quadruped 'creature' in their backyard at night. They felt that it was not an animal, but it also was not a human!I received the following account:"When I was a teen, I slept in a bedroom with a window overlooking my backyard with woods directly behind it. My bed was positioned right next to the window so that when I sat up in bed I would look to my left and look out the window. I had blinds on the window that I would always leave open, but my dad would always yell at me to leave the blinds closed so no one could look in (who was going to look in from our backyard?).Well, one night I woke up out of a deep sleep with a strange feeling like someone was watching me. My blinds were 3/4 of the way down and I remember the moon was illuminating some of the yard. I sat up in my bed and felt very, very scared. I was never one to get scared or wake up in the middle of the night and I didn’t have to pee or feel sick so no reason I would have woken up, but I had a really strong feeling to look outside.I remember I lifted up the blinds further and was paralyzed with fear. In my yard, I could see clearly an animal-like creature. This was before I used the internet or even knew anything about creatures, but I knew 100% this wasn’t an animal. It was massive and so dark. It was the darkest black it looked so unnatural. The creature was not moving, just standing creepily. It had 4 legs, small pointy ears, and a face kind of human but not human. It wasn’t looking towards the woods or directly at me, but I felt like the thing knew I saw it and I immediately laid down and didn’t want to see it ever again.When I lay down my head wasn’t directly next to the window, it was closer to my legs so I had to sit up again to pull the blinds all the way down, and when I sat up I couldn’t help but look outside again and the creature had moved closer to my window. It was sitting/standing in the same position as before but its head was facing me this time and I put the blinds down and laid down so fast with the covers over me and eventually fell asleep after the adrenaline wore off.The strange thing is after this encounter I almost wanted to see the creature again. Every time I woke up after that night I would peek through the blinds to see if anything was lurking near the woods. I asked my sisters if they had ever seen anything like that but they said no. They would never look outside at night. The woods aren’t there anymore either. They built a train track going through my backyard so who knows what it was or where it ended up. This was in New England." CT**********POLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!WEIRDEST OF THE WEIRD 2 - EXPERIENCERS COME FORWARD! | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (REAL EYEWITNESS REPORTS!)LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonJOIN AMAZON PRIME - Unlimited Movie/TV Streaming& FREE 2-Day ShippingRegister a SNAP EBT CardTry Audible PlusBigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTubeLYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDSCRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST?'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINESHey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I want to sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! LonCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio member - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support!-Members-only live chats-Exclusive members-only videos-Priority reply to members' commentsHave perks suggestions? LMK-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS

I received a telephone call from 'RA' about two Bigfoot encounters:The incidents took place in Charleston, Arkansas in Franklin County. She had walked out onto her back porch while drinking a cup of coffee, just before she was ready to leave for work. She was watching two deer and a red fox in the field.Standing there, she noticed movement in the tall brush about 70 yards away. She witnessed a 6 1/2 - 7 ft. tall reddish-haired biped step back into the brush. RA said that it blended so well with the brush that she only noticed it when it moved. She was sure that it was a Bigfoot. She was quite alarmed and nervous, to the point where she asked her neighbor to drive her to work.A few days previous, her boyfriend was asleep (RA was not home) and was awakened by a high-pitched and sustained scream emanating from behind the house. He quickly got out of bed and looked outside. He turned on the recorder on his cellphone and recorded several minutes of the screams.After the screams had stopped he walked downstairs and walked out onto the porch. He soon noticed a tall biped run to the left of the house towards the street in front of the house. He attempted to get a video, but it was too dark and the quality was poor.He described the scream as more of shrill that had very short interruptions. Other people in the neighborhood also heard the noise.I was able to listen to the recording, but have not been given permission to use it on the blog. The sounds are very similar to other Bigfoot screams I have heard in the past. Lon**********POLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!WEIRDEST OF THE WEIRD 2 - EXPERIENCERS COME FORWARD! | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (REAL EYEWITNESS REPORTS!)LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonJOIN AMAZON PRIME - Unlimited Movie/TV Streaming& FREE 2-Day ShippingRegister a SNAP EBT CardTry Audible PlusBigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTubeLYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDSCRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST?'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINESHey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I want to sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! LonCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube Playlist----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio member - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support!-Members-only live chats-Exclusive members-only videos-Priority reply to members' commentsHave perks suggestions? LMK-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS

The experiencer soon realized that perhaps her wish to have an alien encounter had not been such a great idea after all because her life had been changed forever.Mrs. Pat Norris, 28, lives with her husband, Carl, and three children in a suburb of Mobile, Alabama. On the evening of February 3, 1983, she had visited a friend in Mobile and when the friend's husband arrived from work, Mrs. Norris left and headed home on Highway 90. She had turned off the Highway and when about 90 minutes' ride from her home she heard an explosion. At this point, her car began to vibrate and continued to do so, making it difficult for her to steer. She negotiated another turn off the road she was on, brought the car to a halt, opened the car door leaned out and down and looked to ascertain if the transmission could have been causing the trouble. It had not.Mrs. N. continued driving and the vibrating stopped. She executed another turn onto another road and saw that the woods ahead were brilliantly illuminated. At first she thought that there was a helicopter search in progress because of the lights and was very frightened. She again stopped the car, and at this point sighted a huge object about l/2 mile west of her. She now feels the explosion she had heard earlier was the object coming down over a clay and gravel pit in the vicinity.The thing was huge — later estimated to be 7 to 8 stories (70 to 80 feet) high and "six telephone poles" (210 feet) wide, and appeared to be moving toward her at 4-5 miles per hour. The evening had been clear and cool and she had driven with the car windows closed. After the explosion, she noted a "chopping wind, a high-pitched sound and a roaring sound" as well as the vibration. She particularly noted the "whipping of the wind — like a tornado."When the object reached a point fairly close it stopped and all of the noise stopped. It was completely silent and Mrs. Norris lost all of the fear she had felt before. She then got out of the car to get a better look. She strained to take in every detail — feeling like a child with "unbelievable happiness."Mr. Norris said that although Pat told him of her sighting after it happened, he didn't realize how important it was to her until she started checking books out of the local library pertaining to UFOs and "related subjects."She estimates the time duration of the sighting as five minutes. As the craft appeared Mrs. Norris' attention was drawn to a top deck with a long window which she estimates 53 feet and through which she viewed 20 to 30 persons, apparently oblivious of her presence, walking about as if they were changing shift. The wall behind them was curved and white. There were no instruments. The people did not give the appearance of looking out. The beings were pale skinned, dressed in white one piece suits. She judged them to be about our height, five feet 10", quite slender but with chests larger than ours, the top of the head more prominent, no hair, and having the lower half only of ears similar to our own. She noted nothing out of the ordinary about the eyes. What did draw her attention was the great grace of their movements. The atmosphere seemed "sterile."Below this top deck window was an opaque window. The area around it was all white. This window was in sections and was inset. The glass was tinted.Below the center of the craft a door was closing from right to left. (See drawing). And she looked onto a street that was dark as if made of asphalt or possible concrete. Off to the side of this street was tubular rectangular equipment. All across the craft she saw rivets and portholes. She said she could see the portholes "inside out" as she peered into the craft. She saw some construction that included "huge I beams like they put ships together with and beams holding the glass in there." The bottom side was tiered upwards. The construction reminds her of a ship or submarine. She said it seemed possible, very likely, it could have been constructed here on Earth.The very bottom of the craft was formed into a cross made with one foot square mirrors and an observation deck hung down and around the bottom with beings in it. In this case, unlike the top deck, the people were peering out, while overhead she heard a very low pitched but clearly audible (almost like a growl) "announcing" coming from the area of the observation deck now closest to her.Mrs. Norris said she believes they didn't realize she was there until directly over her position.As drawn, she saw four pipes projecting six to eight feet out from the craft set in three or four foot square boxes. They had a hollow flange on the end like a tank cannon and she believes "it looked like a weapon."The craft took a southerly turn as it went on from where she was parked. She said it was staying in the wooded area and did not cross Highway 90 again. Possible it was doubling back towards Irvington and Pascagoula. It lit up the wooded area, and all beneath it as it moved on off. It had white spotlights and to the side blue and red lights that intermingled, pointing up to the clouds and then down to Earth.She told Mr. Brown she had prayed she might have such a sighting. She had extensive dream material both prior to and after the February 4 incident. The late dreams contain a detailed physical examination and scan of her emotions, which we expect to present later, when prepared.After the object was out of sight, Pat continued on home, arriving at 1:10 a.m. - APRO - Field Investigators Bob Gribble and Ed O. Brown-----Pat Norris' sketchesPat Norris Interviewed in 2013:After sighting a huge craft in 1984, Patricia Norris reported the incident and was interviewed by Field Investigator Ed. O. Brown.“Mr. Brown took the report here in my home,” she said.He took a detailed report of her experience and learned that she had hoped she would have such an encounter. In fact, she had many dreams that included “physical examinations and scans of her emotions,” by alien entities.Brown also spoke with her husband, who said he learned of the incident after it had occurred. But he did not realize how much it meant to her “until she started checking books out of the local library pertaining to UFOs and ‘related subjects.’”However, Norris soon realized that perhaps her wish to have an alien encounter had not been such a great idea after all because it her life was changed forever.“My husband divorced me soon after this happened,” she said adding that she never remarried. When asked why he would divorce her she replied, “Well, I can't blame him... it still freaks me out and it still goes on.”By going on, she meant that abductions continued to occur and still do to this day. In fact her 1984 sighting brought back memories of being taken as a child.“I only started to remember this after I saw the ship,” she said. “I was 3 to 4 years old when it started and at that time, she was not afraid. “I remember being above our house, then and now. They have always been in my life and my life seems unreal.”Over the years she said, the aliens “have done physical, mental and emotional tests on me,” and she now realizes that the aliens “feed off our emotions… they test me like a lab rat. They have left marks and scars on me.”When asked if the aliens were Greys, Insectoids, Reptilians or others she replied, “I’m not sure about naming them but all the ones you’ve named and others too have tested me... The ones I've always seen are small Grays and the tall ones - the old ones. They are all different in looks and actions.”Norris said she is consciously aware when the aliens come for her. She has also seen other abductees while she was aboard a UFO.“I have seen other people being worked on and I’ve seen other beings being worked on. On one occasion, she said she was in what appeared to be a hospital “where it was all glass and it’s like a hall of mirrors. Hundreds of people were being tested.”On another occasion, she “woke up by a lake and people were standing around everywhere, and the ship was over the lake. I tried to talk to a woman (but) she didn’t speak English. Everyone was just looking at the ship… then we all went in the ship.” - United Paranormal International - January 2014Sources:ufoevidence.orgAPROUnited Paranormal InternationalTaken: Inside the Alien-Human Abduction AgendaThe Alien Abduction Files: The Most Startling Cases of Human Alien Contact Ever ReportedInto The Fringe: A True Story of Alien AbductionThe Andreasson Affair: The True Story of a Close Encounter of the Fourth Kind**********POLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!WEIRDEST OF THE WEIRD 2 - EXPERIENCERS COME FORWARD! | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (REAL EYEWITNESS REPORTS!)LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonJOIN AMAZON PRIME - Unlimited Movie/TV Streaming& FREE 2-Day ShippingRegister a SNAP EBT CardTry Audible PlusBigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTubeLYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDSCRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST?'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINESHey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I want to sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! 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I received a series of reports from Olive Township, New Jersey starting in 2015 after my Hackettstown 'Mantis Man' sightings investigations episode was presented on national television.I received this report:"Hello - thanks for reading my email. Maybe you can answer my questions. I live in Mount Olive Township, NJ, which is very near Hackettstown. There is a large wooded wetland adjacent to my yard. Lots of deer and other animals roaming around.On Friday night, I was on the porch smoking a cigarette, when I noticed movement at the edge of the woods. The porch light was on and it illuminated most of the yard. I kept watching, when I noticed a man-shaped thing step out into the yard. I ran back into the house to grab my pistol.I went back to the door and watched from the inside. I noticed my neighbor moving a bicycle through their yard, but didn't notice anything else. I didn't notice anything further.After I went to bed, I was really having problems falling asleep. I got up and walked downstairs. I put my coat on and went out onto the porch to have a smoke. After a few minutes, I noticed small bits of white light in the woods. Kind of reminded me of penlights. That only lasted a minute or two. There was no sound. The neighbor's dog was not barking, which was weird because she reacts to anything.On Saturday afternoon, I walked to the back of the yard to grab some wood for our fireplace. As soon as I approached the woodpile, I smelled a strong odor that reminded me of rotting roadkill. It was really bad, so much so that I had to turn around and get away from there. I was gagging and getting sick.About an hour later, I again walked to the woodpile. The stench was not as bad as before, so I quickly put some split logs into the sling and headed back to the house.Later that night, I was again on the porch smoking a cigarette. Suddenly the neighbor's dog started barking at something in the other direction. She was really going at it, while pulling hard on the chain. Just then 4 or 5 of these man-like things ran through the neighbor's yard, then into mine heading towards the woods. They moved like a herd of animals, staying together. It was so strange. The legs were very thin with small feet. I'd say they were about 5 ft in height. They wore loose dark-colored robes or something similar. The heads were small with no necks. I couldn't tell what color they were, but it was lighter than the robes.I am confused and upset by what I witnessed. I later looked on the internet to see if there were similar sightings. I found the Hackettstown report on your website and decided to ask you what your thoughts were. I will admit that there are some strange things going on in this neighborhood. I haven't mentioned this to anyone, but others around here have seen many UFOs and lights. There have also been a few hauntings, according to some of the neighbors. Do you have any idea of what it was I saw? Thanks - JN"NOTE: I called JN and he returned the call. I don't think this was related to the Hackettstown 'Mantis Man' sightings, but who knows. JN told me that he now thinks it's possible that these 'things' weren't solid in form. He also went into the woods to see if there was a rotting carcass there, but he didn't find anything. I started to look into other incidents in his area. I found one reported UFO sighting from several years ago. The area is the Mine Brook wetlands in Mount Olive Township, just northeast of Hackettstown, NJ. I believe that this may also be part of Stephens State Park, but I'm not positive of that. Any information would be helpful. LonI later received the following account:"Hello, Lon. My name is Davida. I was shocked but very pleased to see and read the article that you recently posted about strange sightings in Mount Olive New Jersey...I just moved from Mount Olive on November 22, 2014 and literally felt like I was fleeing from whatever is there. I have an extensive collection of events that took place at my home there, which was surrounded by the same woods described in JN’s story. I have lost all of my pets, 5 in the last 14 months, I totally believe due to the entities that are there. I have been attacked at night, as well as my other family members and pets, so I know it’s real. This is very serious and I had intended to write about my experiences once I settled into my new home in Georgia. I have pictures of non human footprints which appeared after fresh snow had fell and led up to my home. These beings definitely enter homes, right through the walls or windows. I came across the article, as I started to research that area to see if anyone other than myself had experienced the same and I would love to connect with the neighbor who wrote the article. I saw UFO’s just about every night, rising in the distance beyond the woods and tried to drive to see where they could be coming from, but I never found the site. I could see them especially in the winter months when the trees were bare. I wondered why none of my neighbors were speaking about this, but from the article, I see I was not the only one who saw them. Thank you very much.I contacted Davida and asked for more information:"Hi, Lon. I hope all will be well. I have been attacked at night by something that would hold me down, making me feel like I couldn’t move or speak, until I would finally get words out, then it would release me. The last time it happened was December 2013...it had snowed that night...I told my son about it the next morning and as soon as he looked out the window, he saw a straight line of footprints that went from a shrub to under my bedroom window. We went outside and saw many footprints that looked like cloven hoofs with a ball in the rear on some, many leading to our home, but some leading to our neighbors' homes. They all looked like they either started from a tree or ended at a tree. My son had been through the same attacks at night, so he knew what I had experienced, as well as my ex-husband. He decided to sleep in my bedroom until we moved.One night right after that, he said he was woke by something during the night, and saw what looked like a short man rush at him in the dark. He knock him with his arm and said it disappeared. There was always a strange vibe in the house after dark and a couple of my dogs would see things, especially one in particular, an American Eskimo, named Dakota. Every evening as soon as it would get dark, he would pace all over the house, trembling at times and always looking as if he saw something. He never did that in the house we had moved from. A few weeks after my son’s experience, we both couldn’t sleep. It was 3:30 AM...the dogs were up as well and one of them had to go to the bathroom...my son went with me to let them out. I had an African Grey Parrot, that I kept in my bedroom. She was very vocal and talked a lot, most of the time knowing what she was saying. She was alive when we went downstairs...we didn’t look at her cage when we came back up, but a few hours later, I found her dead at the bottom of her cage. This was January 29, 2014. As for my dogs, three of them looked like something would all of a sudden hit them and they would start stumbling around, walking crooked and knocking into things. It happened to 2 of them in the same week and I thought that was very odd. Each one of them died after suffering greatly, being diagnosed with various illnesses and diseases. Within approximately a year, I lost 5 of my pets...this is some of what went on in the last year, but things had happened since we moved there in 2007. I contacted you to be connected to the neighbor because I hardly knew anyone since I lived there. My home was surrounded by the woods on three sides, with a long driveway, so my house wasn’t close to any other neighbor. If you can pass my contact information to the other person, it would be great. Thank you"Weird N.J.: Your Travel Guide to New Jersey's Local Legends and Best Kept SecretsWeird N.J. Vol. 2: Your Travel Guide to New Jersey's Local Legends and Best Kept SecretsHaunted New Jersey: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Garden StateMonsters of New Jersey: Mysterious Creatures in the Garden State (Monsters (Stackpole))**********POLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!WEIRDEST OF THE WEIRD 2 - EXPERIENCERS COME FORWARD! | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (REAL EYEWITNESS REPORTS!)LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonJOIN AMAZON PRIME - Unlimited Movie/TV Streaming& FREE 2-Day ShippingRegister a SNAP EBT CardTry Audible PlusBigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTubeLYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDSCRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST?'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINESHey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I want to sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! 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A doctor who treats children in Ecuador is currently facing a 30-year prison sentence for creating explicit content involving minors—and his prosecution is thanks to Rosco, the electronic sniffer dog. Not a robotic dog, but a dog trained to detect the chemicals applied onto the surfaces of data storage devices, even SD cards no larger […] The post K9 Sniffers in Oklahoma Use Their Nose to Convict Child Predators appeared first on Good News Network.

News The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Rings of Power Season 2 Delves Into Dwarf-Rings & Gives Us a Fury Road-Inspired Rhûn Where’s Rhûn? Oh, back east. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on August 6, 2024 Credit: Amazon MGM Studios Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Amazon MGM Studios Season Two of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will, unsurprisingly, be all about the rings. And while J.R.R. Tolkien provided details on many of the 19 rings of power (and their master) in his writings, he didn’t delve much into the seven dwarven ones. The Rings of Power series is planning to fill that blank space in LOTR lore. “There are tantalizing hints in the source text that the dwarven rings didn’t really control the dwarves the way Sauron might’ve liked, but it did stoke their greed,” co-showrunner Patrick McKay told Entertainment Weekly. “That sent us down this rabbit hole of ‘What about Peter Mullan [who plays King Durin III] going mad as a villain in Khazad-dum in Season Two?’” He added, “The whole idea of doing a show in the Second Age was that it’s not a fixed target, there’s an enormous amount of room for creation and improv within a loose framework. The dwarven rings are a great example where it’s like, ‘What exactly did they do? How might that play on a father-son relationship?’” We’ll get to see what McKay and the rest of the creative team envisioned when the second season premieres later this month. We’ll also get to see their rendition of the deserts of Rhûn, where Nori Brandyfoot (Markella Kavenagh), Poppy Proudfellow (Megan Richards), and Gandalf the Stranger (Daniel Weyman) are headed. In Tolkien’s writings, all we really know about Rhûn is that humans and elves were “born” there, that Sauron hides there for a while, and that two Blue Wizards traveled there while Gandalf, Saruman, and Radagast were in Gondor (something that perhaps means that the Stranger is not Gandalf, though my lembas bread is still on Gandalf and the Stranger being one and the same). Co-showrunner J.D. Payne called Rhûn a “blank check” from Tolkien that allows the show to “go somewhere that’s never been depicted before.” And what inspired Payne and McKay for their take on Rhûn? “We’re huge admirers of Lawrence of Arabia, one of the greatest movies ever made, and we love Mad Max: Fury Road,” McKay told EW. “These are movies that are set in a vast desert landscape, but they make the desert feel beautiful. We’ve never seen deserts before in Lord of the Rings, so the idea to have a spice like that thrown into the mix was really exciting to us.” We’ll get to see that spice when Season Two of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power premieres on Prime Video on August 29, 2024. [end-mark] The post <i>Rings of Power</i> Season 2 Delves Into Dwarf-Rings & Gives Us a <i>Fury Road</i>-Inspired Rhûn appeared first on Reactor.

Excerpts Historical Fantasy Read an Excerpt From Ava Reid’s Lady Macbeth A reimagining of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare’s most famous villainess, giving her a voice, a past, and a power that transforms the story men have written for her. By Ava Reid | Published on August 6, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Lady Macbeth, a novel by Ava Reid reimagining Shakespeare’s Macbeth—out from Del Rey on August 13th. The Lady knows the stories: how her eyes induce madness in men. The Lady knows she will be wed to the Scottish brute, who does not leave his warrior ways behind when he comes to the marriage bed. The Lady knows his hostile, suspicious court will be a game of strategy, requiring all of her wiles and hidden witchcraft to survive. But the Lady does not know her husband has occult secrets of his own. She does not know that prophecy girds him like armor. She does not know that her magic is greater and more dangerous, and that it will threaten the order of the world. She does not know this yet. But she will. He rises in silence and beckons her to follow. Roscille keeps her eyes mainly on the ground, but occasionally she looks up and sneaks glances at him, her husband. There is a scar lacing his throat, white and rigid, like a worm in an apple. It is not a clumsy by-blow. It cannot be anything but death, beaten back. He takes her down another narrow hallway, in the oppo­site direction of her chamber, then down a set of crumbling stairs to an even narrower corridor. The sound of the sea rises, and so does the sound of their footsteps, as if the floor is grow­ing thinner. At the end of this hallway is a door. Its iron grate withers with rust. “A husband and wife should have no secrets from each other,” Macbeth says. “And they should keep each other’s se­crets from the world.” Before Roscille can think of how to reply, he removes a key, tied to a leather thong around his neck. He fits it into the lock. The sea roars up at them, and then is curiously silent. Wood scrapes stone as he pushes the door open. Behind the door, blackness stretches out in all directions. It is not the barbarian blackness she first witnessed upon arriv­ing in Glammis, the bleak edge of civilization. This is an un­natural darkness, such that would confound the pope himself. The air blowing toward them is damp and cold, and although light slides through the threshold behind them, it halts very suddenly, the darkness a wall it cannot breach. Macbeth takes a step forward and there is a splashing sound. Water, he has stepped into water. Roscille blinks and blinks, but staring into the unchanging black makes her eyes gummy, as if with sleep. Is she supposed to follow? The air has a terrible weight, like the pressure at the deepest chasm of the ocean. Buy the Book Lady Macbeth Ava Reid Buy Book Lady Macbeth Ava Reid Buy this book from: AmazonBarnes and NobleiBooksIndieBoundTarget And then: light. Filmy and indistinct, a single torches flares in the center of her vision. The reflection of the flame races along the dark water, in clever beams and quick flashes. The water has a serpent’s iridescent sheen. Her husband stands in the center of the room, which is really a cave, rock formations jutting outward from the walls at strange angles. He is as silent and still as the rock itself. The current judders around him. Three different cur­rents, all converging, sucking at the hem of his tartan. Three women stand in the water at a distance, backs hunched with age, hair scraggly and silver, each holding a sopping garment in her hands. Each woman slaps the water with her cloth, then wrings it out, then soaks it again. Submerges, lifts, submerges, forming her own tight, snarling whirlpool. Roscille stumbles backward and falls against the mold-slick wall. She makes a bleating sound of fear, of disbelief, which her husband does not seem to hear. Then she stands and crosses herself. But the act feels like mockery: She invokes the Holy Trin­ity, the Father the Son the Holy Spirit, as the three women advance toward her, their faces white as lightning. They are so thin under their own wet garments that each notch of their spines can be clearly seen. Their hair is so long that the ratty ends brush the water. “Buidseach,” Macbeth breathes. The world is cold smoke in the air. Witch. It is only then that Roscille sees the shackles around their bony wrists, and the long length of rusty chain that ties them all together. As they move, it drags against the cave floor. If they come any closer, they will strain their binds, and the metal will cut into their soggy flesh, which looks as though it would fall easily off their bones, like rot from a log. “Macbeth,” one of them says. Hisses. The other two echo her: “Macbeth.” “Macbeth.” Roscille read this among the monk’s tomes: Duncane has written a treatise on witchcraft in Scotland. Witches exist; he has proven it. They kill swine and perform spells with their en­trails. They send storms to chase sailors to their watery graves. They turn men into mice, and women into serpents who swal­low them. They can hide in the skin of any woman, but they may be identified by their sharp teeth. Or by their silver hair. In Breizh, there is no such canonical accounting. The Duke would not waste his efforts on the creatures of hell, just as he does not waste it on the matters of heaven: Only rarely can he be persuaded to attend Mass. In Alba, the punishment for witchcraft is death. What is the punishment for keeping witches as prisoners? Macbeth casts his torch across the water. “I come to hear your prophecy. Tell me my fate.” Their eyes are milky white, with mortal blindness. Their noses are just notches in their faces. When the light catches them, their skin seems to sizzle, like oil in heat. “All hail Macbeth,” the first one rasps, “Thane of Glam­mis!” The other two clap in approval, chains jangling. Their damp, soft flesh slaps together. “All hail Macbeth,” cries the second, “Thane of Cawder!” And then, together: “All hail Macbeth! All hail Macbeth! All hail Macbeth!” They shout and shout, until their voices pile on top of one another, like heavy gouts of rain into the river, water upon black water. They shout until the words blur, their thin-lipped mouths open in bacchanalian glee, as if they are expecting wine to pour from the very air and down their throats. Perhaps Roscille should drink from it as well. Her plan, once merely callous, now made blasphemous, vulgar, truly evil, sanctified by these unholiest of creatures. Macbeth turns to her, his face gleaming in the torchlight. “You see,” he says. “My lust for blood will be rewarded. We leave for Cawder at dawn.” Excerpted from Lady Macbeth, copyright © 2024 by Ava Reid. The post Read an Excerpt From Ava Reid’s <i>Lady Macbeth</i> appeared first on Reactor.

While Kamala Harris lets the mystery of her VP pick hang in the air, we don’t need to wonder who’s already on her ticket: the mainstream media. Just when Americans thought they couldn’t be surprised by the press’ bias, Harris’ candidacy has turned them into outright liars, whose in-kind donation is a blanket cover-up for every unpopular policy she’s ever endorsed. And Republicans, who are used to running against the media, have to wonder: Will voters see through the scam? From defunding the police to banning fracking—even Harris’ assignment as border czar—the Left’s revisionist history has saturated news casts, network interviews, even fact-checkers. As National Review’s Noah Rothman bleakly put it, “The sense of euphoric inevitability that prevailed when Republicans gathered in Milwaukee for the party’s nominating convention is gone. … The Trump campaign has struggled to break into the Kamala Harris-dominated news cycle in a positive way. Republicans are resigned not just to a race against a tougher opponent but to an array of cultural and journalistic institutions acting with reckless disregard for their reputations to shield Harris from scrutiny. It’s all rather depressing.” Harris’ dubious record is being scrubbed clean by an army of media water-carriers, who insist that GovTrack’s most liberal senator in 2019 didn’t actually mean those things she said about “Medicare for All,” voting rights for felons, bans on offshore drilling, and gun control. In one of the more embarrassing displays, CNN’s Daniel Dale even claimed that “Harris was never made [President Joe] Biden’s ‘border czar,’” adding, “In reality, Biden gave Harris a more limited immigration-related assignment.” “I know it’s a lie. You know it’s a lie. They know it’s a lie,” Becket Adams writes. “That they never bothered to correct this three-year-old ‘misconception’ until she became the presumptive Democratic nominee gives the game away. But the all-too-obvious timing of the thing is not stopping them from trying to revise her record anyway.” One of Biden’s most feckless Cabinet officials, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, tried to deny the same reality, insisting, “Let’s be very clear about this because there has been a lot of mischaracterization. She was not in charge of the border.” Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., on MSNBC, was even more disingenuous, telling MSNBC, “She wasn’t the border czar, but, boy oh boy, did she do a great job at the border.” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., could only shake his head. They’re all “trying to rewrite history,” he told Family Research Council President Tony Perkins on Saturday’s “This Week on the Hill.” “And you see all the left[ist] media doing this too. President Biden tapped Kamala Harris to be the border czar. She doesn’t have many jobs as vice president, and that’s one of the few things he gave her. The border is a mess. [She was told to] go figure it out. And she couldn’t do it. She wouldn’t even go down to the border for so long. She ignored this problem.” The Left is hoping everyone forgets that “she is for open borders,” Scalise insisted. “She’s been very vocal about wanting to legalize people who just roam into the country and giv[e] them free stuff. And by the way, it’s angering most people in America.” The media is “going to try to change history. Sorry,” the House leader said. “They’re not going to be able to get away with it.” And yet, as Rothman pointed out, “There is no pressure on the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee to sit for interviews, hold press conferences, or even merely speak extemporaneously for more than a few sentences. Even what may be Harris’ foremost vulnerability—her inauthenticity—is presented as an asset.” His colleague, Rich Lowry, thinks this is the natural outgrowth of the press “elevat[ing] her from also-ran vice president to savior of the republic in the space of about 12 hours a couple of weekends ago.” Now, trusting that the press won’t challenge her on anything she says, Harris has the audacity to claim she’s the tough one on immigration. At an Atlanta rally, Biden’s vice president actually said, “I will proudly put my record against his any day of the week. Any day of the week, including, for example, on the issue of immigration. … Donald Trump,” she continued, “has been talking a big game about securing our border. But he does not walk the walk.” As Lowry bemoans, Harris’ “sociopathic dishonesty” on the border “has not been met with a flurry of fact checks, nor have editors been zealously adding the word ‘falsely’ in front of her claims. No, she’s flipping the script, and going on offense, and punching back.” So why not “try to get it to swallow an even more outlandishly implausible notion?” he wondered. But how long can Harris outrun the facts as troves of videos, sound bites, and speeches burn down the straw woman the press has built? “As we get closer to November,” Scalise warned, there are three issues that are “crystallizing everywhere you go. And No. 1—far and away—is the border. People want to get this border secured. It’s madness what’s going on at the border, and that comes up no matter what part of the country you’re in.” And as the stock market freefalls, images like Harris in 2023 saying she’s “very proud of Bidenomics” will be hard even for the magicians of the media to erase. As Scalise says, the second biggest issue on voters’ minds is “inflation, the cost of things.” And whatever part of the country you go into, they’re complaining about grocery prices. They’re complaining about gas prices and energy prices, [and] just cooling their home in the summer. I mean, these are problems that were created by the Biden-Harris administration. Everybody knows that. … [T]his is where Kamala Harris is going to have a real problem. She was with Joe Biden helping be the architect [of these policies]. Look, she was the deciding vote for the Inflation Reduction Act. She can’t run away from these things—the policies that created the inflation, that when you go to the grocery store, you’re paying 30% more than when Biden took office. Add that to the explosive situation in the Middle East, and frankly, the House’s second-in-command warned, “I don’t remember a time when America’s projected so much weakness to so many of our friends around the world. … You see what Russia did with Ukraine. You see what Iran, through their proxies—Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis—have done to Israel. And then, of course, you see what China is doing to allies like Taiwan. So all of our enemies are taking advantage of the weakness being projected.” How does this affect the Democrats’ replacement candidate? Well, as Scalise reminded people, “Kamala has really no record on the world stage, except for the Biden agenda. And the Biden-Harris agenda in foreign policy has been walking away from Israel, projecting weakness, and allowing our military to be more focused on wokeness, which is not the preparedness we need to deal with the threat that China and other countries pose. “So it’s a dangerous place right now, and we’re in a much more dangerous position because of the weakness projected by Harris and Biden. And I think that’s going to be a big factor knowing how strong President Trump was. [There were] no new wars when Donald Trump was president. Our friends knew that we had their back. And we did, by the way, have their back because we weren’t letting the bad guys run roughshod around the world.” So the Left’s strategy is simple: Change the subject. They really are going to be focused on how they can divide the American people between now and Nov. 5, because they don’t want the American people talking about the issues people care about. … And the reason that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden don’t want to talk about it is because those problems were created by Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. The inflation, high energy prices, open border, all of those are self-created problems by the Biden-Harris ticket. And again, you go back four years ago, we did not have those problems. When it comes to Harris’ campaign, “They’re going to want to talk about abortion every day. They’re going to want to talk about mandating [electric vehicles], and Jan. 6. And the American people are saying, ‘Look, I’ve got real problems that you helped create. And I want to talk about those problems.’” Originally published by The Washington Stand The post Media Helps Reinvent Kamala Harris in Truth-Optional Campaign appeared first on The Daily Signal.